The aftermath of nature’s acts of fury were often difficult to look at and traverse, no matter how well trained one thinks of themselves as. Alice and Beth were finding out just how much at that, as they carefully walked through the forest, keeping up brave appearances for each other’s sake, as well as that of the people who might still be out here.
 
 
The earthquake had been rather sudden; a properly natural, as far as they were aware, but an unexpected event that shook up a lot of lives in various ways. The homes of nearby settlements suffered some damages, a number of jars and bottles broke… But, most importantly, people had gone missing.
 
 
At first, it was just a few, but then the people who went looking for them vanished as well, then the people looking for them and it eventually became their “problem”, leading the two forest rangers to look into the situation with a, more or less, appropriate response.
 
 
The task itself was not a problem, both of them eager to help however they could. The circumstances under which they had to perform it however…
 
 
The earthquake had changed the landscape slightly, not even the old trees left undisturbed, making some of the usual markings they used to go missing and almost leaving them in an entirely unfamiliar location. On top of that, branches and similar things were spread out along the forest floor at unpredictable positions.
 
 
Having to keep an ear for anyone screaming out for help, the breaking branches didn’t really do much good for either of their nerves, leaving them rather jumpy as they went deeper and deeper into the forest, trying not to shoot their guns no matter how spooked they might end up as a result.
 
 
They were similar enough in some ways, close enough as lovers, and friends and classmates before that, that they could finish each other’s sentences, as well as sandwiches; but in spite of otherwise being able to share a comfortable silence, they still had to make obvious observations and meaningless conversation just to try and deal with the horror movie-esque atmosphere building up.
 
 
“Ugh… This place? You’ve got to be kidding me…” As if to spitefully match the thought, they came across a cave, prompting Beth to complain as she did.
 
 
Alice, in turn, handed her girlfriend a flashlight and an almost equally annoyed smile. “Come on. You knew this was coming, didn’t you? And if they knew, they probably went here to hide.”
 
 
“Yeah, yeah…” Just because Beth knew it was around here, that didn’t mean she had to be happy to be here, especially with the existing horror air to it all.
 
 
The cave was decently known, enough for cheeky kids to vandalize some of the early parts of it, or the homeless to squat in there or something else that requires some degree of maintenance or another to make sure it remains presentable.
 
 
It went deep too, being connected to a larger system of caves underground. Technically, it wasn’t the most safe location due to the possibility that it caved in, but at the same time, they had to check it to make sure that someone wasn’t trapped down there, personal safety be damned.
 
 
There were more cracks in the walls and floor than expected, a lot of rocks having been moved around and felled, but nothing that was too unsafe, even as they went deeper and deeper into the cave, looking for anything and anyone else that would be out of the ordinary…
 
 
Blood was a pretty bad sign, though one that helped guide them towards an opening that neither of them remembered being there—In fact, they were pretty sure there was supposed to just be a floor there, rather than a path further down.
 
 
Making sure they had their first aid supplies where they could reach them though, they went ahead anyway, concerned about the possibility that there was someone still injured down there… Or a possible killer on the loose, but that was why they had the supplies and their guns.
 
 
o.O.o.O.o
 
 
This part was definitely new. It was considerably less traveled and went several meters deeper than either of them remembered the cave ever going. It couldn’t have been man, or recently, made, which was only just barely a relief…
 
 
They left markers behind themselves to make sure they don’t get lost. It was unlikely that they would be able to get an injured person out of here easily, but there wasn’t any reception here so they couldn’t call for help; not that they had anyone to call for backup, or any reason to call beyond the possibility that someone was stil down here.
 
 
There was still blood here and there, but at suspiciously irregular patterns. One of them in particular was just short of a crossroads, two equally likely paths stretching out in front of them…
 
 
As much as they didn’t want to split up, there was still a chance that the person was still alive. Possibly starved, dehydrated and due for an amputation, but still alive and they could simply cover more ground if they did split up and make sure to check both options.
 
 
So, with a hug and exchanged wishes of good luck, they split up, still keeping an ear out for survivors, and now for each other to make sure they can respond when and it either calls.
 
 
It didn’t take much longer after that for Alice to find something, though she’d have preferred otherwise as she cautiously approached. Finding light in the dark cave was unexpected, drawing her closer and closer until she even got to the point where she didn’t need her flashlight to see. The walls and ceiling were illuminated by some sort of glowing moss, or something similar enough that she didn’t want to touch unless she had to.
 
 
It all led to a source… A pit of considerable size. A hole in the ground that gave a preview of hell. It wasn’t literally hell, of course, but the thought pierced through her mind as she looked down into it.
 
 
Rather than fire and brimstone, the pit was full of… Something. A nightmarish mix of worms and leeches that spawned an almost phallic horror of massive size that crawled and slithered around, coated in a sort of mucus that she had simply discontinued beneath her feet as moist air in the cave.
 
 
More importantly, there were bones down there, scattered about and barely able to be differentiated if they came from animals or humans, but there were definitely human skulls down there. Clothes, equipment, shattered rib cages, caved in skulls, small bits of technology and jewelry that glittered… Melted flesh that started to assault her nose and nearly make her throw up.
 
 
Eaten. These things were massive next to the bones, their heads easily large enough to swallow a person whole, though most of them would have to be able to hold a person down the entire length of their bodies to keep them down. There was no doubt in Alice’s mind however that their victims had been eaten whole, alive, digested with primal, animalistic, mercilessness.
 
 
She tried to walk away. They were slow moving enough that she could probably outrun them, and they didn’t seem to have noticed her. With their slimy exterior, it was also possible that they might not even be able to climb up the side of the pit even if they had noticed her.
 
 
—She only got to make one step backwards before the plan fell apart, the same as the edge of the pit that crumbled and sent her down, hitting her head on the descent as she was delivered right down to the monstrous carnicti.
 
 
o.O.o.O.o
 
 
Beth was having considerably less luck in finding anything of use. All she found was cave and her shoes getting wetter from the weird condescension on the floor; even if they were fairly heavy-duty, fitting for trekking through the woods, she still heard the slight squelch as she walked, no matter how much she tried to ignore it.
 
 
As soon as she heard what she was confident was the sound of rolling rocks, of movement, echoing, she rushed back, toward the source to go help Alice. Even if it had just been an accident on Alice’s part, there was simply nothing on this side anyway, so regrouping would be for the best.
 
 
When she found Alice, however, those sorts of thoughts vanished.
 
 
Nightmarish things were next to, and above, Alice, slamming into each other repeatedly in conflict, flailing around with purpose and trying to be the single winner of the contest. The bones littered around the bottom of the pit were clear indications of what would happen in the end.
 
 
Alice’s clothes were torn off, leaving her naked from the front and lying on the back of what remained of her shredded outfit. She was simply laid out down there, naked, being fought over by those things that just kept fighting over their food, over who gets to eat.
 
 
Before she knew it, the fight was finished, leaving a clear winner as the losers retreated in as much shame as these sorts of things could even display, while Beth just kept watching, swallowing heavily.
 
 
The winner moved, coiling itself around Alice and opening its worm mouth-head as it placed itself at Alice’s bare feet. They had even bitten through and destroyed her boots and now, the nightmarish worm-leech-thing was slithering upward, swallowing its reward’s legs at the same time. It was a beautiful and erotic scene and as soon as Beth thought as much, she took her gun into her hands and…
 
 
…but what if she hurts Alice? Y-Yeah! She might accidentally hurt her lover if she shoots now. Who knows what might happen if she fires now, even if it might just be a warning shot… She might lose her legs! She just… She just needed more time to watch the situation and make sure she plans this through and does it right!
 
 
So, she watched, keeping her gun trained on the thing eating her lover. The lower legs were thin… She should wait for a thicker part, one that might survive a panicked or pained bite… The thighs, maybe? Yes! Yes, she just had to wait for it to get to her thighs and then she could save Alice. Until then, she would continue her nature watching, to make sure that nothing weird happens.
 
 
Within a few moments of her situation, Alice started to stir awake as well, feeling a discomfort at her legs. She tried to squirm away from the feeling, but her legs didn’t move properly, being engulfed in something that left her groaning. It was too comfortable for a cave-in to have dropped rocks on top of her legs, so she found herself unconcerned for a moment longer as she tried to clear her head and remember what happened–
 
 
–Panic quickly settled in as she remembered the last things she saw. Her mind forced itself to a fully awake state as she spoke soft denials until she was able to look down the length of her body and found that her fears were realized.
 
 
The thing, the disgusting worm, had coiled itself around her body, preventing her from making any significant moves as it engulfed her legs, working its way up past her knees in a snake-like way. She was naked, letting her feel every moment of it as its insides scraped and hugged her legs, taking more and more of her with clear and singular intent.
 
 
Her exclamations of “No, no, no, no, no” got even more desperate as she tried to figure out a way to get out of this situation. She had nothing to fight back with and no matter how much she struggled, she couldn’t summon up enough force to get away from the worm that was consuming her.
 
 
Beth. Beth! Beth could still save her, couldn’t she?! She must have heard the fall, and even if she hadn’t, then she should surely be hearing her desperate pleas, shouldn’t she? Of course, she’ll save her, won’t she? She just needs to wait a few more moments and then Beth will come and shoot this thing!
 
 
Knowing that she would get saved soon didn’t really help her situation right now either. At the very least, it was surprisingly, illogically, comfortable inside the worm– She couldn’t let herself think about that though. She didn’t want to.
 
 
It was warm inside. The cold air of the cave contrasted with the warmth of the worm as soft flesh and insides hugged her legs, almost massaging her as it went up their length, working its way up her thighs with no intention to stop until she was fully consumed. She could imagine it happening as well, the thing was large enough to fully engulf her like a comfortable sleeping bag.
 
 
But at the end of this, she wouldn’t be faced with waking up well-rested; she wouldn’t be waking up at the end of this at all. It went past her thighs, finishing off her legs and getting up to her crotch, drawing an involuntary moan as the comfortable pressure and movements of its mouth and throat were applied to her bare ass and pussy at the same time.
 
 
It didn’t stop for her pleasure though, just moving forward with animalistic logic, reaching her hips in short order and leaving Alice in an increasing state of panic. Where was Beth!? Why wasn’t she doing anything?!
 
 
Alice did her best to put all her effort and frustration into moving at least enough of her to look back to the edge she had fallen from. Was Beth even there!?!
 
 
–She was, but what Alice saw nearly broke her heart. Beth was standing there, her gun facing the ground and with a hand in her pants. She was definitely looking at what was happening, but instead of helping her, she was just watching and fingering herself. Why…?
 
 
“Beth!” Alice yelled out, causing her lover to flinch at being called out so suddenly and aggressively. “Quit fucking messing around!”
 
 
Beth considered the situation for a moment, the tips of her fingers still in her pussy as it squeezed down on them, her body still telling her what to do. Deep down, she knew that it was entirely her own decision. The sight was more pleasant than expected and brought her to such a state that she, barely even reluctantly, started to masturbate as her lover was facing her certain death.
 
 
However, she was seen. There was no way back from that. Not only that, but Alice told her to stop messing around and it just… Triggered something as Beth let out a short, exasperated laugh and did just that. Her gun clattered to the ground as she let go of it and started using the now free hand to pull at her clothes with the intent to just rip them off, her fingers sinking deeper into her pussy.
 
 
Claiming innocence and trying to deny what had happened simply wouldn’t have worked after Alice had seen her. So, she was going to get at least one good orgasm out of this and then she was going to save Alice and rub that fact in her face. This was–All of this was still her decision to listen to her body and she could easily stop. She was still in control of the situation and she was only going to let it go on for a little while longer!
 
 
Alice started to look around for something, anything, that might help her situation. She couldn’t just let herself die like this, couldn’t leave these things down here like this for them to kill even more people after her! Even if it was just a rock she can use to bash the worm eating her, it would be enough, she just wanted something, anything!
 
 
But the only thing even remotely close or usable was her rifle. It looked to be way too far for her to reach, but as she struggled with her full body, she just barely managed to free one arm, the coils having loosened somewhat as the worm progressed. She reached for the rifle, just barely able to touch it with the tip of her middle finger…!
 
 
A short moment of relief reached her as she tried to pull it closer to her, so she could properly grab, hold and use it to escape this nightmare situation–The gun was suddenly kicked away. Alice felt an absolutely sinking feeling in her chest as she looked up the length of the leg. Beth had jumped down and kicked the gun away, while not holding her own.
 
 
Beth hadn’t fully realized what she had done, until it was done. If Alice had managed to get the gun, then she would have brought all of this to an end, prompting her to jump down and allow the show to continue… But now that she was down here, the realizations hit her as well. She had just doomed her lover to a horrible death. She wouldn’t be able to climb out of the pit herself either, the drop not having proper footholds that she could use… But in the first place, she found that she had no desire to climb out of the pit anyway.
 
 
She was a horrible person, wasn’t she? Aroused and hopelessly horny at her lover being eaten like this and only growing more horny at the knowledge that even more people will continue dying to these things because of what she had done, and continued to not do. Maybe she even could have fought back, grabbed Alice’s gun, but instead… She just laughed at herself.
 
 
What a horrible person she was. With just a touch, she came to a truly mind shattering orgasm that broke and removed whatever inhibitions she still had. She looked down to Alice as she ripped more of her own clothes off, the worm moving up Alice’s waist, realizing that she didn’t want to save her… No, she wanted her to get eaten and she wanted to experience it for herself as well!
 
 
“You… Bitch.” Alice breathed out in utter betrayal and Beth simply grinned even wider as she bent down, holding Alice’s head and bringing their lips together. She forcibly made out with her lover one last time before pulling back and angling Alice’s head to make sure her lover could continue watching her.
 
 
Alice found that she had lost all hope. With Beth’s sudden betrayal, the worm that was swallowing up her lower body, her last lifeline taken away and now Beth masturbating while making sure she would be seen by her… It was all just too much, leaving her with no option left but to surrender to it all.
 
 
The only thing Alice could do was let herself enjoy the ride, letting herself acknowledge that it really was nice to be eaten like this… It shouldn’t be. She was going to die, most likely painfully, but it really was pleasant in the moment… And she was about to make it better as she shoved her hands down the worm’s throat herself.
 
 
The bastard almost seemed surprised as she fed her limbs to it, but it remained as mindless as ever otherwise, Alice moving her hand down the comfortable insides until she reached her own crotch, fingering herself while watching Beth masturbate at the sight of her demise.
 
 
The sight of it had pushed Beth even further over the edge as well. Her fingers were no longer enough, her body demanding more, something thicker, harder, larger… The only things that were around her though were bones. In her state, it didn’t really matter, prompting her to simply grab two bones and begin to fuck herself with them.
 
 
Both of them started moaning, Alice finally making use of the pleasure she had been feeling and denying for the past few minutes while Beth rode the bones, one up her ass and the other in her pussy, pushing down against them, pretty much on all fours and watching Alice’s final moments, getting faster and more intense as the worm came increasingly closer to ending it all.
 
 
–There was a certain, unfortunate, factor in it for Beth though. Now that Alice had accepted her fate, it wasn’t quite as arousing as before, as it might have been had she kept denying it even as she masturbated as well, but this was enough for her as well. Even if she couldn’t enjoy her soon-to-be-former lover’s suffering, she could still enjoy her pleasure.
 
 
As the worm closed its maw around Alice’s head, the last thing she saw was Beth orgasming, another worm slithering toward her as she rode out her orgasm, her body shuddering in pleasure. Between those movements, and the short moment of acknowledgement Beth gave Alice in these final moments, it was difficult to argue that Beth wasn’t explicitly inviting them to give her the same fate as she had been enjoying watching.
 
 
It didn’t really matter to Alice anymore though as she reached her own orgasm, the maw of the worm fully closing off all light, her whole body engulfed in a pleasurable embrace that would hopefully last until her very final moments.
 
 
With her lover gone, and the visible aspect gone with her, Beth didn’t particularly care about the worm that coiled around her and started to swallow her head-first. It was suffocating, yes, but she truly didn’t care beyond the sheer fact that she really did want this.
 
 
She couldn’t use the floor for leverage anymore, but she was still able to move the bones plugging her ass and cunt to continue masturbating through the experience, even if it left her breaths shorter and shorter, wasting air and gradually… …… ………
 
 
o.O.o.O.o
 
 
When Beth came to, she was already fully swallowed, embraced by the same warm tightness that Alice must have experienced all the way down. She wasn’t really sure how she was able to breathe in her like this, but she was certainly happy about it. She rubbed her head against the internals of what she assumed to be the stomach itself, if the things were not just one large digestive tract all on their own.
 
 
She didn’t regret it. Even as she felt tingles along the length of her body, breaking her down, removing what clothes she hadn’t ripped off herself, she didn’t regret this sort of ending and just thinking about it, and everything that led to it, made her horny all over again. Even the pain was nice as she just barely managed to get her hands into position to continue fingering herself.
 
 
Beth wondered if Alice was going through this as well, if she was also masturbating a short distance away, being exposed to this exact thing… Those sorts of thoughts and enjoyment stayed with her for as long as she stayed aware of herself, until she started to fully delve into the abyss of pleasure and pain.
 
 
The last image on Beth’s mind, in the darkness of this stomach, was Alice’s pleasured face just before she was fully consumed. Surely, Alice was enjoying the experience, wasn’t she?